[00:13] <froq> hey kristian-aalborg, is there a specific place you went for information on Cairo dock when you first started to use it?  I placed around w/ both last night, and I apprecaited the increased customiability associated with Cairo compared to AWN (and the 3D effects better.)
[00:21] <kristian-aalborg> froq, I never used it that much, tbh
[00:21] <kristian-aalborg> I could not get the "compositing" to work
[00:26] <froq> kristian-aalborg, oo... you use a dock?
[00:28] <kristian-aalborg> I only used it briefly
[00:28] <kristian-aalborg> I use fluxbox now
[00:38] <froq> fluxbox!  o yeah, i forgot about your change.
[04:25] <HopelessUselessU> Hello, I need help burning an Ubuntu ISO file to cd, please.
[04:31] <Error404NotFoun1> what do you need help with?
[04:31] <Error404NotFoun1> burning an iso is pretty straight forward...
[04:32] <Error404NotFoun1> HopelessUselessU:  are you on ubuntu now?
[04:36] <Error404NotFoun1> well HopelessUselessU if you are on ubuntu simply drag and drop the iso on brasero disc burner, located in applications sound and video
[04:40] <HopelessUselessU> Oh, if it were so simple! The only distro I have available is gnewsense, so it is what is installed on this computer. However, it does not seem to have a useable burning programme. There is K3B and Brasero, but neither will work. I am now trying to find commands to use in Terminal to burn an ISo ...
[04:43] <Error404NotFoun1>  			 				cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 /tmp/image.iso 			 		
[04:43] <Error404NotFoun1> replace file path and iso name with yours
[04:44] <HopelessUselessU> Thank you, I shall try that.
[04:45] <Error404NotFoun1> oh um the o,o,o needs to be changed to your actual device number too
[04:45] <HopelessUselessU> Device number, according to scanbus is 0,0,0
[04:45] <Error404NotFoun1> use cdrecord -scanbus in terminal to find your drive
[04:50] <HopelessUselessU> This is interesting. Now the terminal window has gone berserk. Let us assume it is an error message. I see words like unable and trying flashing before my eyes. I guess this is not good. Is there something I can type in the terminal to stop the message scrolling?
[04:51] <Error404NotFoun1> um hit the x lol
[04:51] <HopelessUselessU> But then I'll never know what it was saying ... I'd go mad!
[04:52] <HopelessUselessU> Sorright, Ctl-Z stopped it
[04:52] <Error404NotFoun1> was gonna say learn to read faster then!
[04:53] <HopelessUselessU> LOL
[04:53] <HopelessUselessU> The error message says:  Fix your configuration.Unable to open this SCSI ID. Trying to map to old ATA syntax.This workaround will disappear in the near future.
[04:53] <HopelessUselessU> Translation?
[04:54] <Error404NotFoun1> blah
[04:54] <Error404NotFoun1> try # dd if=myCDISOfile.ISO of=/dev/cdrom
[04:54] <Error404NotFoun1> or
[04:54] <Error404NotFoun1> # dd if=myCDISOfile.ISO of=/dev/cdrom-sr0
[04:58] <Error404NotFoun1> if that dont help i just suck..
[04:59] <HopelessUselessU> Now I have "dd: opening '/dev/cdrom': No medium found" which is heaps better than an endlessly scrolling message. Perhaps it dislikes my blank TDK cds? I will try another brand.
[05:18] <HopelessUselessU> Ho hum. Neither a BASF nor a Millenium blank cd are found as 'medium'. Perhaps a seance?
[05:18] <Error404NotFoun1> grab the candles!
[05:19] <HopelessUselessU> This is so silly - I have 5 computers and can't burn an ISO on any of them! Back to windoze 98 ...
[05:20] <Error404NotFoun1> lol
[05:20] <Error404NotFoun1> thats why i dual boot natty and win 7
[05:24] <HopelessUselessU> I've just moved house and can't find any windoze install disks and anyway am reluctant to use them. Nevertheless, in a year or more of trying GNU/Linux distros I have yet to find one that will burn a cd. Probably because I am too poor to go out and buy a new computer, so I am trying to use other people's throw-aways. The Ubuntu one works reasonably well, but cannot go online. This gnewsense one goes online but cannot 
[05:35] <Austin_> irc.freenode.net
[05:35] <Austin_> Hello, I'm having some problems installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4164 running Windows XP SP3 with an Intel T1350 processor and 1GB of RAM
[05:38] <Error404NotFoun1> lol he stayed long...
[09:04] <pizza_the_hut> Hi there, can anyone recommend a good text to read on firewalls or any firewall software for Ubuntu?
[09:08] <pizza_the_hut> I have recently started to tinker with setting up fileservers and was curious as to what is a good way to secure what I've set up.
[09:08] <coalwater> pizza_the_hut, ubuntu already has a firewall called ufw
[09:09] <coalwater> !ufw
[09:09] <ubot2> Ubuntu, like any other Linux distribution, has firewall capabilities built-in. The firewall is managed using the 'ufw' command - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW | An alternative to ufw is the 'iptables' command - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo | GUI frontends such as Gufw (GNOME)  and Guarddog (KDE Lucid and Maverick) also exist.
[09:10] <pizza_the_hut> thanks!
[11:51] <eee___> ow can I change my login screen in ubuntu 11.04 latty? I have downloaded a package from the ubuntu online art database
[11:51] <eee___> how*
[11:52] <bioterror> I think that's rather difficult nowdays
[11:53] <eee___> ok then
[11:53] <eee___> i am not so good dealing with terminal
[11:53] <bioterror> been a while since I last time used GDM
[11:53] <eee___> GDM?
[12:10] <coalwater> bioterror, u scared him off with the g word (gdm) :D lol jk
[12:11] <bioterror> haha
[12:11] <bioterror> before it was easy to change the theme of GDM
[12:12] <coalwater> i think i'd do it using ubuntu tweak
[12:13] <coalwater> i know there's a lot of other tweak programs, but i already have this one and it can do it
[16:00] <kristian-aalborg> would there be a reason *not* just start whatevs DE with startx?
[16:01] <kristian-aalborg> I'm going boinkers
[16:01] <holstein> kristian-aalborg: if you dont want X to auto-start
[16:01] <holstein> some folks do it that way
[16:02] <kristian-aalborg> I do it on my own box constantly
[16:03] <kristian-aalborg> I just aliased startx to "x"
[16:03] <semitones> anyone know some good pancake making tips?
[16:03] <holstein> nice
[16:03] <kristian-aalborg> so I type my name, login...type "x"... that's it
[16:04] <holstein> semitones: i like to use soda water in the batter, but we should talk about that in #ubuntu-beginners-team :)
[16:04] <kristian-aalborg> I fail to see the benefits of a DM for a system with only one user etc
[16:04] <semitones> oh i'm sorry, I thought this was -offtopic :p
[16:04]  * semitones changes tabs
[16:10] <kristian-aalborg> semitones, put beer in it
[16:10] <kristian-aalborg> for reals
[17:25] <coalwater> shouldn't there be an oneric alpha 2 cd image?
[17:26] <bioterror> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule
[17:26] <coalwater> hmm
[17:26] <bioterror> wait 5 days
[17:26] <coalwater> i kinda feel it was sooner than that
[17:26] <bioterror> sorry, 2 days :D
[17:27] <coalwater> okay
[17:28] <coalwater> so bioterror, just a small question
[17:28] <coalwater> what do 10.04.1/2/3 have different
[17:28] <bioterror> packages
[17:28] <coalwater> do they add updated packages that went in the later realeases?
[17:28] <bioterror> yes
[17:29] <coalwater> like for example the first 10.04 didnt have players in the sound menu right? does it have it in later ones ?
[17:29] <bioterror> I dunno about that
[17:29] <bioterror> but it has bug fixes and stuff like that
[17:29] <coalwater> i am not sure if its better to stick with LTS or just go update
[17:30] <bioterror> I've never stuck with the LTS
[17:30] <coalwater> next realeases usually come with shiny stuff that makes people wanna upgrade lol
[17:31] <bioterror> well, my own computers are rolling ones ;)
[17:37] <coalwater> okie, leaving work, see u later
[21:02] <kristian-aalborg> anyone got a recommendation for a different chat client than pidgin?
[21:02] <kristian-aalborg> (which wants over 40 mb)
[21:02] <bioterror> MSN IRC what0
[21:02] <bioterror> ?
[21:03] <kristian-aalborg> mainly irc and FB, I think
[21:03] <bioterror> irssi + bitlbee?
[21:03] <kristian-aalborg> sorry, that would be msn and fb
[21:03] <kristian-aalborg> should be simple and easy to use
[21:04] <charlie-tca> weechat
[21:04] <charlie-tca> or xchat
[21:04] <charlie-tca> for a gui
[21:05] <kristian-aalborg> gui is a must... I something like pidgin but without all those dependencies
[21:05] <kristian-aalborg> is aMsn any good these days?
[21:05] <charlie-tca> try xchat, it is quite good
[21:06] <kristian-aalborg> I'm on xchat right now ;)
[21:06] <kristian-aalborg> but no msn support, it seems
[21:07] <charlie-tca> so, something that has MSN, IRC, FaceBook then?
[21:07] <froq> Someone want to point in the direction to set up a symbolic link (I think...) - My goal is to store all my music on a external HDD, yet have it symbolically linked to the music folder under my /home/froq
[21:07] <holstein> http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html maybe kristian-aalborg
[21:07] <bioterror> ln -s
[21:08] <bioterror> ln -s /media/juarez/Music /home/froq/
[21:10] <kristian-aalborg> sorry, I should clarity... this is not for me, this is for the install I'm doing for my sister... so simple is key
[21:10] <kristian-aalborg> ah nm... I guess I'll go with pidgin
[21:10] <bioterror> pidgin is best for multi protocols
[21:19] <s-fox> Hello.
[21:19] <bioterror> hi
[21:19] <s-fox> Hello bioterror.
[21:19] <s-fox> :)
[21:20] <bioterror> how are you?
[21:20] <bioterror> have not seen you for a while
[21:21] <s-fox> I'm never far,  though perhaps we should continue this discussion in the offtopic channel
[21:56] <froq> bioterror, thanks bio!!! :)
[21:56] <bioterror> np
[22:08] <froq> bioterror, what is the difference between a symbolic & hardlink?
[22:09] <bioterror> if you remove the hard link, it will remove the original?
[22:09] <froq> ok!  thz
[22:09] <bioterror> just a moment ;)
[22:10] <froq> i am looking it up @ the moment.  jstu didn't know if you had some quick guidance on the matter.
[22:12] <bioterror> Symbolic links are different from hard links. Hard links do not normally point to directories, and they cannot link paths on different volumes or file systems. Symbolic links may point to any file or directory irrespective of the volumes on which the source and destination reside. Whereas hard links always refer to an existing file, symbolic links may contain arbitrary text that doesn't point
[22:12] <bioterror>  to anything.
[22:13] <froq> bioterror, got ya!  thz sir. :)
[22:13] <bioterror> TIL about links :D
[22:42] <drew212> hey, how do you open a new window in unity?